George MacDonald

George MacDonald is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games and in the computer game industry.

Career George MacDonald started working on role-playing games while at college, by adding detail to the super powers system for the Superhero: 2044 role-playing game (1977) from Gamescience and ultimately creating his own original game system which Steve Peterson typed up, and which eventually became the Champions (1981) superhero role-playing game. MacDonald and Peterson had only enough money to print 1,500 copies of the game and hand-collated them to save money, and they sold their new game at Pacific Origins 1981; they were surprised to see it sell very well, selling 1,000 of their 1,500 copies at the convention. MacDonald and Jeff Grubb authored the game module Curse of the Azure Bonds, which was released in April 1989 under Forgotten Realms Module FRC2.